UC Davis Philosophy 156

Instructor: G. J. Mattey, Senior Lecturer

Syllabus

Term Paper Assignment

On-Line Readings

F. H. Bradley, Appearance and Reality (excerpts)

Bertrand Russell, Principles of Mathematics (Chapter IV, "Proper Names, Adjectives and Verbs")

Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"

G. E. Moore, "External and Internal Relations"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Richard Rorty, "Analytic Philosophy and Transformative Philosophy"

Virtual Slide Presentations

Important Figures in Analytic Philosophy (filesize > 1mb)

Philosophical Analysis

Bradley and the Impossibility of Analysis

Early Russell on Philosophical Grammar

Russell on Denoting

Moore on External Relations

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

Ryle on Systematically Misleading Expressions

Austin on Knowing

Schlick on Meaning and Verification

Quine on Logical Empiricism

Quine on Ontology

Carnap on Ontology

Goodman on Confirmation

Gettier on Knowledge

Quine on Epistemology

Kripke on Semantics

Putnam on Meaning

Lewis on Possibilia

Rorty on Analytic Philosophy

Links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement to "Analysis"
• Bradley
• Full text of Appearance and Reality
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, "Francis Herbert Bradley"
• Professor Jeff Speaks, McGill University, "Bradley on Substance, Property, and Relation"
• Dr. William Vallicella, "Relations, Monism, and the Vindication of Bradley's Regress"
• Russell
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, "Bertrand Russell"
• Professor Kent Bach, San Francisco State University, "Comparing Frege and Russell"
• Professor Thomas Ryckman, Lawrence University, "Russell's Theory of Descriptions"
• Professor Jeff Speaks, McGill University, "Russell's Theory of Descriptions"
• Professor Mark Crimmins, Stanford University, "Russell's 'Gray's Elegy' Argument"
• Moore
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, "George Edward Moore"
• Professor Jeff Speaks, McGill University, "Logical Analysis Put to Use: The Case of Internal and External Relations"
• Wittgenstein
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article "Ludwig Wittgenstein"
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article "Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)"
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article "Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism"
• Dr. Arif Ahmed, Cambridge University, Tractatus Lectures
• Ordinary Language Philosophy
• Professor T. P. Uschanov, University of Helsinki, "The Strange Death of Ordinary Language Philosophy"
• Austin
• From Stephen Pepper's Concept and Quality, "The Argument in Austin's 'Other Minds'"
• Quine
• Professor Curtis Brown, Trinity University, "Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'"
• Professor Christopher Panza, Drury University, "Willard Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'"
• Professor Arthur Sullivan, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "W.V. Quine on the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction"
• Professor Harry Gensler, John Carroll University, interactive quiz on "On What There Is"
• Professor Eric Funkhouser, University of Arkansas, Quine "On What There Is"
• Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, "Naturalized Epistemology"
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, "Naturalistic Epistemology"
• Gettier
• Professor James Prior, Princeton University, "Theory of Knowledge: The Gettier Problem"
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, "Gettier Problems"
• Kripke
• Professor Jeff Speaks, McGill University, Several handouts on Naming and Necessity
• Professor John Burgess, Princeton University, "Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity" [doc]
• Putnam
• Professor Jason Bridges, University of Chicago, "Hilary Putnam: 'Is Semantics Possible?'"
• Lewis
• Professor Josh Parsons, UC Davis, lecture notes on counterpart theory
• Professor Phillip Bricker, University of Massachusetts, "David Lewis: On the Plurality of Worlds
• Rorty>
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, "Richard Rorty"
• A comparable course at the University of Massachusetts
• A comparable course at Rice University

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